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You’re not the only one that feel a nip in the air. With autumn on its last legs and winter starting to make its icy presence felt so staying warm becomes top priority. Trapping heat is essential but get excessive with your layers and you’ll be sweating like a Volkswagen executive during a diesel emissions test. Instead, use our layering cheat sheet and you’ll not only look on-point, but be well-equipped to beat the elements too.

My mum wearing classic Levi’s 501s left me a vivid memories – stonewashed, high-waisted with a button-fly and loose tapered legs in signature thick denim – throughout my childhood to do the gardening or take the dog on a muddy walk.

When I groe as an adolescence, when replicating Kate Moss and Sienna Miller in their super-skinny Sass & Bide ‘Misfits’ (remember those?) became my ultimate goal, I would tease her about how ‘dated’ her pale Levi’s were. ‘They’ll come back around one day,’ she’d say, like all mums do.

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Mrs. Landini to the White House for a state dinner.

Hosted by President Obama, the final state dinner in honor of Italy’s prime minister, first lady Michelle Obama wore a custom rose-gold chain-mail gown from Atelier Versace. It was a slinky gown with an asymmetrical neckline that slithered like liquid metal down her torso and around her hips. It was pure Hollywood glamour.

There are plenty of fun and fresh ideas to update your hair for the new season for you to cut it short, add some fringe or simply play with texture, .

The possibilities are endless! But one major tip for cutting your hair this fall, is to make sure your part is interchangeable. “A middle part with collarbone length hair will create a soft everyday look. A very deep exaggerated side part will give you a sexy, cozy look for fall,” said Michelle Forst, celebrity stylist at George the Salon in Chicago.

Debra Bar is head of marketing at Bank Leumi in New York, but her office wear these days doesn’t scream “bank executive.” She has purged her closet of business suits, replacing them with colorful dresses that she enjoys wearing more. Her heels are gathering dust in a desk drawer while she dons flat shoes, and even sneakers, since injuring her knee.

“No one really notices that I’m not wearing heels every day,” she says. “As long as you look nice, no one cares anymore. There’s no dress code.”